Bush Pittsburgh visit 4 Santorum sparks protest vigil

Bush visits Pittsburgh for Santorum fund-raiser
Visit sparks evening protest vigil on downtown Sewickley corner
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Bush was in a posh suburb of Pittsburgh yesterday at a big ticket fund raiser for Tricky Ricky Santorum. (Imagine a private home big enough to host 500 people for dinner.) Sorry I don't know how to post photos, but check out today's Post Gazette for 2 excellent pictures. One is of Bush & Santorum together; the other of children holding a candlelight vigil with signs like Who Would Jesus Bomb? On the following link, go down the page to the 6th story under local news.

www.post-gazette.com

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Above, President Bush encourages Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., to wave to the traveling press corps after Air Force One landed yesterday at the 911th Airlift Wing at Pittsburgh International Airport.

Mr. Bush attended a fund-raiser for Mr. Santorum last night in Sewickley Heights. While at the airport, he also presented the President's Volunteer Service Award to Edy Hope, a volunteer with Carebreak at the Watson Institute in Sewickley who helps a family with a 6-year-old autistic girl.

Bush opponents, below, organized a demonstration in downtown Sewickley last night. Left to right, Clara Murray, 9; Pilar Puyana, 10; Mary Torrance, 10; Claire Torrance, 7; and Allegra Menniti, 10, all from Sewickley, protest President Bush's visit to Santorum fund-raiser at the candlelight vigil took place at the corner of Broad and Beaver streets.

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I'm wondering if by making this Presidential award out at the airport, he was able to write off half or more of the cost of using Air Force One for a partisan political purpose.
A volunteer who helps a family with one child, in wealthy Sewickley, where said family could probably well afford to hire anyone they needed anyway, is really reaching it to give a presidential award. "Carebreak" sounds like the volunteer babysits a six year autistic old a few hours a week for free. That's nice, but not anywhere NEAR the effort that thousands and thousands of other volunteers.

WTF is the psychopath doing in this pic?

Thanks for the pictures.